CREATION

It was on a cold clear night that both I and my good lady recently decided to go for a walk and visit some friends. As we strolled along I looked up into the night sky and I saw that it was covered in myriads of stars.

I found myself asking- “Where have all the stars come from? When did they come into being? What keeps them on their vast courses?” I recalled reading somewhere about a lecture given by Frank Jeffries, astronomer and scientist. “Friends,” he said, addressing his audience, “the greatest thinkers throughout the history of mankind including the present, have utterly failed to give a satisfactory explanation as to how and when this world came into existence. Whatever theory they have worked on, they have eventually come face to face with the necessity of a First Cause which they cannot define; so for ever they stumble along and all the time, following patiently behind them hoping that they will turn and look Him in the face is the First Cause, the Lord God of heaven and earth.

So as I looked up at the night's sky, a vista of God's creation was spread out before me, I realised afresh that however unfashionable it may be these days. The Book of Genesis gets amazingly near the truth –

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Brother Roy